Tag: balcony

• HE NEVER LEFT

  Heading downtown, with a one way ticket out of here. Nothing left for me in this one-horse town. It’s time to go and find my fortune elsewhere. This is my destiny. ‘Yo, Mikey!’ Who’s that at the window? Julie? Man, she is hot, even in tracksuit bottoms and wet hair. ‘Hey, Julie.’ ‘Where you headin’?’…

  Iain Kelly

  01/02/2023

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• SPOILS OF WAR

  

  ‘Don’t cross the border,’ his father had pleaded. Cortez sat on what remained of the balcony. ‘Look at me now, Padre.’ His balcony. It would take hard labour to fix the place up, but he had been doing hard labour his whole life. This time though, the work would be for his benefit, not the…

  Iain Kelly

  24/01/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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